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Show LEADING 18 FACTS OF NEW HISTORY MEXICAN front; 2. serving as domiciles, without any form of construction in front ; Excavated rooms with open rooms or porches built on in onding corresp with high, stories 8 Houses of stone, one to three number of terraces, built upon the talus against the cliff. In these groups the excavated chambers now seen in the cliff-wall were An examination of simply back rooms of the terraced buildings. of considerable villages several of walls the of remains shows talus the extent that were built upon the talus against the cliff. The row of holes in the cliff wall shows where the ceiling beams of the second The walls of the first floor rooms are to be found under story rested. the debris where the talus meets the vertical cliff. The ruins of a number of excavated back rooms are to be seen in the wall. ‘©All of section four of the cliff and a great part of section five is broken about mid-way of its height by a ledge which shelves back On this ledge a few yards and then meets another vertical wall. and against and within this upper wall are the remains of another These continue for a distance of 2,100 succession of dwellings. feet. This, added to the line of dwellings on the lower level, gives a continuous extent of house remains of this character about a mile The dwellings of this upper ledge were quite and a half inlength. Here were the simple cave-like houses, the porched like those below. chambers, and the terraced pueblo against the cliff, with excavated It was possible to step from the house-tops on to the back-rooms. In places heavy retaining walls of stone were built rim-rock above. Stairways cut in the face of the rock on the front of the ledge. ascend from this upper ledge to the great community house on the top. ‘“The great community house stands near the edge of the cliff, the southwest corner approaching to within twenty feet of the brink. The huge quadrangular pile of tufa blocks gives at first the impression of great regularity of construction, but on close examination No two the usual irregularities of pueblo buildings are found. exterior walls are exactly parallel, but the orientation of the buildings is approximately with the cardinal points. The wall forming the east side of the court is on a due north and south line. The interior court is not a perfect rectangle, the north side measuring 150 feet; south, 140; east, 158; and west, 143. ‘‘At the southeast corner is the main entrance to the square, 17 Panel Indians by C. Lotave, entering Old Palace, Cliff Kiva Santa at Pu-yé r6,: NN. M: |